What problem does it solve? Teams often adopt Kanban boards, metrics, and retrospectives yet see continuous improvement stall, with action items that never change behavior. This Skill provides Mike Rother's Toyota Kata framework — the Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata — to turn improvement into a daily, coached, scientific practice rather than an empty ritual. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Improvement Kata (4 Steps): Understand the direction, grasp the current condition with measurable data, establish a specific time-bounded target condition, and iterate small PDCA experiments toward it. - Coaching Kata (5 Questions): A structured daily coaching routine that develops the improver's capability by asking questions instead of providing answers, supported by storyboards and a three-level improver/coach/2nd-coach hierarchy. - Use Case: A team with highly variable cycle time (p50=4d, p95=19d) sets a 4-week target of p85 ≤ 5 days, then runs daily predicted experiments — such as rotating review duty — to systematically remove obstacles like slow first reviews. ## Quick Start Ask Claude to help you set up a Toyota Kata improvement cycle for your team's stalled cycle-time problem, including a target condition and the first experiment.
